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The first steamed power locomotive called the penydarren locomotive created by Richard Trevithivk. It weight 5 tons and carried 25 tons.
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The first fare paying passenger rail service called the oyster mouth railway in Swansea,whales.They were later called the Swansea and Mumbles railway.They used horse drawn vehicles.The railway survived until 1960.
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In Scotland the first railway system due to the act of parliament called the Kilmarnock and Troon railway.T the same time Richard Trevithick held a steam circus in London.
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The first commercial use on the Middleton railway,Leeds.Mathew Murray of Fenton,in Holbeck designed a locomotive with a pinion that meshed with the rack.It was based on Richard Trevithicks steam circus locomotive,It was the first 2 cylinder locomotive.
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Quincy,Mass became the first place in america with a working railway system.Also known as the granite railway.
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the fastest train to that point was created by Stephenson. It went 30mph with 30 people in it.
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the first diesel powered locomotive was in Sweden in 1913.
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in 1937 a German inventor Hermann kemper patented the idea of magnetic levitating train.
